Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-16
Russia,
ACQUITs THE oRLEANIsTs

ACQUITS THE oRLEANIsTs.
LONDON, Dec Is TIE Times s. Pc
tersburg specials say the Foreign oace,
sfter inquiipg into the forged documents
to the Car, scquits the O.leenistE OF
| completely in the shaif. l. is believed at
the Foreign ONCE that The fraud is more
Of q business than political nature, got
| up in the interest Ci private persons.
| The Times correspondent. 81 Paris re-
peats the story that IL. Grew DESTROYED
two Ct the Ltmousin letters, because ais
name appeared in them, and says the
scandal case was dismissed TO avoid In
plicsting M. Grevy.
THE UNIV RsITY TROUBLE.
Sr. PETERSBURG, Dec. 15.-rne Official
| Messenger, referring 30 the trouble So
Moscow University, says the lectures 81
the University were suspended on SC
count of the students having assaulted
the inspector at Concord. The other
students sided with the ASSISTANTS end
made arrangements for meeting which,
however, WAS suppressed. Many students
were arrested and sent into exile. Fresh
trouble was caused in Moscow by the re-
port that two students had died from the
effects Of injuries received while the Do
despite OF the denial of this rumor. The
students ebsented themselves from their
classes and ignored the authority OF the
University officials
ORDERS REsCIaDED.
VIENNA, Dec. 15-AdVices from Lcm-
berg say the orders TO Russian troops to
proceed 10 the Austrian frontier bsve
been rescinded.
WHAT AUSTRIA IS DOING.
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 15.-The OEeIal
Military Gazette says owing to the
alarm raised by the Austrian
press in consequence of the transfer
of some Russian cavalry to the
Warsaw district 1t is advisable to coz
slider the military position of Russia ant~
her western frontiers, ia order to throw
light upon the question as to who is
really preparing to stack aud for defense.
During the past 1--WE years the pescs
cffsctiYe OF the German army has beea
increased Dy six'y-nye battslions and
3S4 guns. The German troops on the
Russian frontier have been increased 70
thenty-one bsirslions of infantry, twenty
seven batteries of artillery and ft ee
squadrons Of cavalry. Since 1873 Ger
msDY has built in the eastern provinces
1904 kllometers of railway. There Ere
eleven German railroads by means of
which troops can be forwarded to the
Russian frontier and ten junction stations
where they can DC rapidly thrown out Of
trains and concentrated. Germany has
formed flrst-class iortresses at Thorn,
Poser, Danlzig and Konigsburg and is
building similar fortress at Grandeur
Austria has added nine to the twenty
three infantry divisions which formerly
constituted her effective and would ada,
IN the event Of the mobilization Of the
army fourteen Lsndwehr divisions. The
Galicien garrisens have also been reir.-
forced during1 s87 yeighteen sauadross Of
cavalry and thirteen batteries vf artillery,
all provided with full complement OF
horses. In the Austrian district, watch
might become the seat Of war with Ras-
sia, 1900 kilometers Of railroad with four
branches have been constructed since
1873. Six Austrian railways sre
available for throwing into Galicis large
bodies of troops, who, by means Of tae
new junction stations, Can be placed In
position on the Russian frontier. MIL
tary depots and stores are being COT